My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? By Werner Herzog (with David Lynch’s name attached)post

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? had its Gala UK Premier at the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival. So far it has screened exclusively at festivals and popular distribution is uncertain. It is scheduled to be released on DVD in the USA on 14 September 2010.)


Grace Zabriskie, Michael Shannon and Chlöe Sévigny eat Jell-O.


The Searchers 

begins with Westerner Stan Jones’ heavy, harmonizing ballad, which, to the music of Max Steiner, asks: “What makes a man to wander?” Lee Marvin, with a similar profundity of voice in The Killers (1964), wonders: “What makes a man take a bullet without trying to escape it?” (The 1946 version answers, “a double-crossin’ dame!”) Werner Herzog’s latest film, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, asks its plot-spinning question in the title and its audience, together with Willem Defoe’s detective and the baffled people he questions, have it lodged in their minds throughout.
Read the full review on the Berkshire Review for the Arts!

Michael Miller